The mark of fluent English-language writers or speakers is the way they effortlessly do away with words mandated by formal grammar — which only impede the quick delivery of their ideas.

Scott Simon talks with Ellen Jovin, author of "Rebel With A Clause," about the many grammar questions she's fielded from the public and whether it's ever OK to correct someone's grammar. Grammar is ...

Back on a hot day in the summer of 2019, author and communications teacher Ellen Jovin sat at a folding table she'd set up outside South Bend's Chocolate Café on South Michigan Street. As Jovin ...